Afghan president vows revenge over deadly Kabul attacks
Iran Press TV
Fri Feb 2, 2018 03:02PM
President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to take revenge for a spate of deadly attacks in Afghanistan after senior authorities in Kabul pointed a finger of blame at neighboring Pakistan over the bloodshed.
"People will not forget. Even if it takes a hundred years, the Afghans will take their revenge," Ghani said in a televised address to the nation after Friday prayers.
Afghans "demand" peace and want "practical actions (from Pakistan)", the president added.
Ghani noted that at least eleven people have been detained over the attacks. He gave no further details about the detainees.
Ghani also stressed that officials would submit a new security plan for Kabul on Sunday to prevent any further attacks.
The Kabul government is under growing public pressure to improve security in the Afghan capital after three major attacks in the past two weeks demonstrated the ability of militants to strike at the heart of the violence-wracked country.
Since January 20, militants have stormed a luxury hotel, bombed a crowded street and raided a military compound in Kabul, killing more than 130 people. A British charity in the eastern city of Jalalabad was also attacked. Officials said at least five people were killed.
The remarks came a day after Afghan officials said they had given neighboring Pakistan evidence showing that the militants who carried out a recent series of deadly attacks were trained on Pakistani soil.
Afghan Interior Minister Wais Barmak and Masooom Stanekzai, head of the NDS intelligence service, told a press briefing in Kabul on Thursday that they had presented confessions by captured militants and other proof at a meeting a day earlier in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Afghan officials said Pakistan had agreed to take "practical steps" to act on the information.
The Pakistani embassy in Kabul however said the information was "being examined for its authenticity".
Pakistan and Afghanistan regularly accuse each other of sheltering their enemy insurgents. The two sides also accuse each other of not doing enough to stop militants engaging in cross-border raids.
Kabul, along with Washington, has long accused Islamabad of providing safe havens to leaders of the Taliban.
Pakistan denies the charges, stressing it has eradicated safe havens in the tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
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